It looks like they didn't include podcasts. Given the rise of various podcasts that are basically serialized audiobooks, I have to wonder what the numbers would be like including them.
Reading for pleasure plummets by 40% in the US
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#12> The paper also noted that although reading with children is rare, it has not changed much over time.
This part really got to me, reading to one's children is rare? That's so sad. My toddler loves reading with me.
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#13> The paper also noted that although reading with children is rare, it has not changed much over time. This part really got to me, reading to one's children is rare? That's so sad. My toddler loves reading with me.
It jumped out at me too. Are people not reading to their kids?!
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#14> reading for pleasure (reading a book, newspaper, magazine, reading on electronic devices and listening to audiobooks)
Given the social media engagement numbers, for better or worse that would be enough to put us at peak reading. Is it fun ? nobody's setting on gun on people's head so it would still fit the article's définition IMHO.
This reminds me of articles lamenting people's attention span because they don't watch the endless spinoffs of Lord of the Ring, and play Zelda instead.
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#15> The paper also noted that although reading with children is rare, it has not changed much over time. This part really got to me, reading to one's children is rare? That's so sad. My toddler loves reading with me.
I'd assume reading _with_ children and reading _to_ children are differentiated ?
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#16> reading for pleasure (reading a book, newspaper, magazine, reading on electronic devices and listening to audiobooks) Given the social media engagement numbers, for better or worse that would be enough to put us at peak reading. Is it fun ? nobody's setting on gun on people's head so it would still fit the article's définition IMHO. This reminds me of articles lamenting people's attention span because they don't wa…
Social media seems to be moving to images and now even (ultra) short-form video content. Does a hypothetic 40% increase in social media engagement offset a 40% decline in reading in any meaningful way?
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#17US about to need a lot of low skilled workers so its okay I guess?
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#18I flew from Detroit to Seattle last night. I used that time to read 170 pages of Crazy for the Storm by Norman Ollestad (easy, entertaining read). Though I obviously didn't walk the entire plane, looking around from my seat / when walking to the restroom, everyone I saw was watching a movie.
I enjoy reading for pleasure.
On a plane that has a screen, I almost intentionally find something there to watch instead. I don't know why but for some reason I just have very little desire to read on planes when the screen is an option.
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#19I just read "Slow Horses" by Mike Herron. It's easily as good as the show on Apple TV and was lots of fun to read. I can't imagine anything more entertaining.
I found that book to be such a slough (pun very much intended) to get through. Maybe the British humo(u)r just didn't land for me? I had the same problem with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe
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#20It looks like they didn't include podcasts. Given the rise of various podcasts that are basically serialized audiobooks, I have to wonder what the numbers would be like including them.
One of their primary motivations was understanding changes in literacy, so it makes sense they wouldn't include audiobooks (or podcasts).